RIP

A true legend passed away over the weekend, and no I am not talking about Gary Coleman. Dennis Hopper was one of those actors that I really wish I had met. He seemed like an awesome guy who would buy everyone a drink and an 8 ball, just for the hell of it.

Easy Rider is an American classic, his role in Hoosiers brought him a supporting actor nomination, but it’s his role in Blue Velvet that will forever seal his legacy. In true Hopper form, I sometimes like to walk around with my own canister of laughing gas and repeat my favorite lines from the movie.

Hopper, like most actors, was also in a lot of crap, but he was always the best part of the crap when he was in it. Waterworld would not even be watchable if he wasn’t the leader of the smokers. (side note: The world is covered by water, so where did they get all the cigarettes?) You also have to respect the man for calling Christopher Walken “part eggplant” in True Romance, and of course as the mad bomber in the first Speed movie.

And let us not forget Hopper as King Koopa, in the Super Mario Brothers movie… now that movie was a real pile of shit but again, Hopper stole the show. Then there is my all time favorite Space Truckers, which is one of those direct to DVD jobs where the movie might have worked if the special effects were not so damn distracting.

You see, Hopper was the perfect bad guy because he would do things completely awful and revolting but at the same time he did it with so much charisma the audience had no choice but to admire him. I can only hope to be as cool as Dennis Hopper was for as long as he was. RIP.

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